All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team. — Doc Rivers Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters.… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must… — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is,… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir]… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image